The Brothers just didn’t need it in a dominating 27-0 season-opening win over visiting Baldwinsville Friday night at Alibrandi Stadium.

“We wanted to try to see if we could just run the ball at them before we tried to throw it, so we could kind of get their linebackers up close,” CBA coach Joe Casamento said. “We just ran at them and figured as long as we could continue to beat them up front, we’d stay with it.”

The Brothers’ defense was just as good, led by a swarming group of linebackers that included Joey Pascarella, Anyan Davis, Dametrius Brown and Deshawn Salters.

CBA never let Baldwinsville sustain any momentum on offense. Of the 47 offensive plays run by Baldwinsville, 21 ended up being for negative yardage. Bees’ junior Tyler Rouse, who ran for almost 2,000 yards and 24 touchdowns last season, had 15 carries for 23 yards.

“We played a little faster than they wanted to play,” Casamento said of his defense. “We made them turn it back inside where our linebackers could clean it up.

“It was easy for me,” Salters said. “Our big line was blowing their defensive line off the ball.”

“Early, we got outside on them,” Vanonese said. “I think we knew early we could run on them from the first play. Our line got a push and came back and said ‘we think we can get these guys.’ So, we went at them every play.”

Baldwinsville was young and inexperienced up front, and it showed. The Bees lost most of its starters up front on both offense and defense to graduation.

“We knew if we could control the line of scrimmage, we’d win the game,” said Barrett, who already has committed to play for Syracuse University next season. We just went down their throats, down their throats.”

“Baldwinsville still has a good football team,” Casamento said. “We just played a great game. We really did.”